 So, as someone opposed a existence of my age and my looks we am some-more supportive to a universe around me. But we don’t see strong, aging and volatile women, in any medium, solely maybe for Dame ‘Maggie’ Smith on Downton Abbey. She is, in her impression and in a genuine world…herself. Can we suspect her otherwise? And we adore her for it. And Dame Judi Dench also comes to mind for her eagerness to be her age in plays and films and in life. It gives all women a boost. But, there is many positively not adequate age farrago in a media usually as there has not been adequate secular farrago for too many years. And it is deflating not to be a partial of a scene, a discussions, a inspiration, perhaps, for a wiser, some-more honest proceed to a law of life.
I adore antiques, generally aged wood, a patina flourishing lovelier as it incorporates into itself a bumps and bruises of life. Like a appreciated aged table, or list that has survived a many moves, a many hands on, a random spills and wounds of a era yet which, since of a wear, has combined beauty, definition and amatory value. We’re propitious if we get to be antiques. And it would be poetic to know that a multitude recognizes that we have most life and wisdom to give and that girl lacks what we can move to a list or a radio screen.
Sadly, we no longer get Valentines in a mail. What we do get are offers for what we suspect sellers trust should matter to a lady in her seventies: Burial Plots; Scooter Chairs; A Walk-in Bathtub/Shower Combo; Medical Alert Bracelets; Assisted Living Facilities; Full Body Scans; Vision Aids; Discount Arthritis Medications; Four Pronged Canes; Fashionably Painted Canes; And…ah, yes…Remedies for Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction.
I’m anything yet unaware. we understanding daily with a vagaries of aging. And we have to do it alone. Demons hit during my door: “Look out! Be careful! Don’t fall! You don’t unequivocally wish to sled down that hill!†(Yes, we do!) we tend pleasantly to myself and am wakeful that we need to adjust to whatever stipulations we have or might have in a future. we am, appreciate goodness, a healthy 76. we still can travel miles even yet we have an arthritic hip and a behind that looks on cat-scan like my possess Rocky Horror Picture Show. we eat healthy dishes that are in line with my reliable principles, try to equivocate doctors, select chocolate and red booze instead, and we usually know that we am aged when we demeanour in a counterpart or someone offers me a chair on a subway.
Our bodies know they are aging. Our hearts will, in a end, siphon a accurate series of beats they were meant to pump. We can assistance a bodies by eating right, sportive and creation certain to tend them when they are ill. But by changing a faces we still won’t live longer than we’re meant to live. And, we don’t wish a 20 year aged face on my physique when it’s had adequate of this world. we wish it to uncover that I’ve lived…and we wish to say: ‘Ya finished good, honey’ to each singular bluster who hammered his feet opposite my eyes. In my face we will see a justification of my life, each pain, each sorrow, each joy, each thing we was while we was here.
So, greatfully join me as we applaud my 76th birthday year with a potion of booze lifted in a toast a French adore so well: “A la Vie, Comme Il Vient.†To life as it comes. May yours be healthy, happy and bountiful.
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